August 08, 2017

Again with the Korea thing

For most of my adult life, the American people have been offered a false choice regarding dealing with North Korea: Negotiation or war.

Turns out, we're going to get the war one way or another. The current Kim is likely insane, which is not surprising how he grew up. Deterrence rests entirely on both parties being rational. That doesn't seem to be our boy Kim.

Alternatively, he is entirely rational and believes that the US will never stand up to him because it never has before. These are the wages of appeasement.

Of course the media is blaming the situation on Trump, but if Obama (or Bill Clinton, or either Bush) had taken care of business, we won't even have this problem.

One of the reasons I don't trust the modern left with any sort of responsibility is their tendency to come up with simple, nice-sounding solutions that rest on impossible premises.

The right also has its idiots, most of whom worked in the Bush White House and are now in the NeverTrump camp.

The key point in dealing with North Korea is that war is likely the only option and the question is simply when we start it.

Do we wait until he has more warheads and better missiles or do we go in now?

The power curve is turning solidly against us. Each passing day allows him more time to perfect his weaponry and extend the range and accuracy of his missiles.

Let us recall that there was a time when we knew North Korea had neither. We let that opportunity slip past because the threat of North Korea's conventional artillery targeting Seoul was too great.

Seoul is still threatened, but now so is Japan and the Western Pacific.

One of the lessons of history is that the elites are never as smart or in control as they think they are. The credentialed Mandarins lecturing us on how to handle the current crisis are the same people who failed to solve it for the past 20 years.

There are no good options left. All we can do now is try to pick the least worst one.

North Korea couldn't annex a 7-11. In a conventional war I'd bet on South Korea in a heart-beat. I suspect, however, that what we're going to see is a pre-emptive nuclear attack on NK by US. Your country has the capability to hit NK with nukes launched/dropped by stealth, and when MacArthur and Bradley proposed using atomic weapons it was because the terrain and conditions of Korea are such that WMDs are virtually the only military solution. No ordinary American President would consider tripping the MAD switch, but President Trump has demonstrated that he doesn't understand why nobody has used nuclear weapons, except to test, since WW2.